A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Thursday. Unique identifier: us2000j5ck. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j5ck. Exact location, longitude 20.5831° East, latitude 37.6617° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 21:46:40 / January 17, 2019 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:46:40 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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